Crossword for Wed, 3/Mar/2010

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Across
1: Navy serviceman provided examples of adaptations to life on board (3-4)

6: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

9: Free to turn some integral tables (2,5)

10: Have a go at draw (7)

11: Overcome by disappointment from the rare bonk going awry (11)

12: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

13: Aliens set off (3)

14: The Lilliputians' citizen army? (9)

15: Formerly thoughtful and dear? (9)

20: One may be a very long time (3)

21: Tweak with wrong end of a pin (3)

22: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

24: Lionel train originally given to Ron Howard on 'Happy Days' (7)

26: Remain distraught about initially rowdy sailor (7)

27: It's believed to be average grass (5)

28: Some freezing? (7)
Down
1: After a second, whip and rip (5)

2: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

3: Seabird coming back around by mistake (7)

4: Bachelorettes wear indecent clothing to induce one to take a vow (5, 2)

5: Let bank arrange cover (7)

6: All for naught, perhaps; not many upset (7)

7: Thumb Drum? (3)

8: Observed, yet seen so poorly (3,4,2)

12: Privy to accessibility (11)

13: We hear former wife thrilled Richard, an odd person (9)

16: Illegally hunted for a flower for a revolutionary dunderhead (7)

17: Loss of this animal is no laughing matter. (2, 5)

18: Guy who can last in Roman orgy (4,3)

19: Witty remark, for example, about constant batterer (7)

23: Wags components of 22-across (5)

25: Draw the knot (3)




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